Empirical
Rational
Rational adjective - According to the rules of logic.
Usage example: insisted there was a rational explanation for the strange creaking noises and that there were no such things as ghosts
Empirical and rational are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Empirical" instead an adjective "Rational".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- sensible and empirical
- sensible and rational
- sound and empirical
- sound and rational
- objective and empirical
- objective and rational
- sane and empirical
- sane and rational
- reasonable and empirical
- reasonable and rational
- sober and empirical
- sober and rational
- legitimate and empirical
- legitimate and rational
Both words in one sentence
- Specifically, there is no empirical or rational method for determining that other people are actually conscious, once we assume that they actually exist.
Source: Paranoia Fuel / Film -
For example, in Andrei Livadny's novels, the Order is portrayed as a rational group that believes in the existence of an otherdimentional point known as the Node based purely on empirical evidence.
Source: Shared Universe -
It implies imminence.Sonja: But judgment of any system of phenomena exists in any rational, metaphysical or epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself.Boris: Yeah, I've said that many times.
Source: Film / Love and Death
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